#friendshipisweird

[firethekitty]

trick or treat <3

you got: the officially licensed spike spiegel plush!

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Summary: (Gojo and Shoko run a bowling alley. It goes about how you would expect it to go.) From the fic description on ao3:  With the Star Plasma Lanes Christmas Eve Extravaganza only eight days away, Nobara's made it her mission to ensure Megumi and Yuji go together. On a date. However, between their tendencies for self-sabotage and the looming Kyoto Sister School Exchange Event, it might end up being harder than she originally anticipated. Much harder.

Author: @friendshipisweird

Note from submitter: Ultimate comfort fic tbh

[bisexuallsokka]

i said sad ending intially but if it means we get to read both im changing my answer to happy ending

alright, good choice! i went with a happier ending, here’s the link to the fic

as for the alternative sad ending, i’m going to put it under the cut. it’s a 5+1 fic and the +1 was the sad one, so i’ll paste that here. i would recommend reading the whole fic first and then if you want to see what i had initially planned for the ending, it is unedited but here it is

(cw for major character death)

+1

“Are you sure you don’t want me to write it down for you?” Zuko asks his husband for the second time, an eyebrow raised.

“I got it! Don’t worry. Soba noodles, rice vinegar, toothpaste, cat treats. Easy peasy,” Sokka beams, grabbing his keys and shrugging on a jacket. “I’ll grab some Twizzlers for movie night, too.”

Zuko rolls his eyes. He will never admit it, but he has grown to love Twizzlers thanks to Sokka. It may have something to do with the large amount of Twizzler flavored kisses over the years. “Alright. I’ll be expecting your phone call soon.”

“Do you have that little faith in me?” Sokka gasps dramatically.

“Not in you, just in your track record,” Zuko tells him. "Four years of marriage will do that."

Sokka laughs and takes a step toward him, watching Zuko pull out ingredients from the fridge until Zuko notices and gives him a questioning look.

“Hey,” Sokka says, kissing Zuko on the cheek. “I love you, you know.”

“I love you too, you giant dork," Zuko responds, heart fluttering in his chest even as he pushes Sokka toward the door. "Now scram, I'm hungry!"

Sokka laughs. “I’ll be right back! I promise!”

Twenty minutes later, Zuko smiles when he feels his phone vibrating in his pocket. He can just imagine Sokka staring at the store shelves, waiting for Zuko to pick up so he can ask, “Was it white vinegar that you wanted? Also, do you have a preference for the brand of noodles I get? What else did we need? I know I said I didn’t need to write it down but I should have written it down-”

Zuko puts down the salt he just added to the sautéing vegetables and grabs the phone, not even bothering to look at the caller ID as he answers. “Yes?” he asks, smiling widely.

“Zuko, where are you?”  

He blinks. It’s Katara. The tone of her voice sends a chill through his body, and with shaking hands he is already reaching for his keys.

“Katara? Are you o-”

“Zuko, it’s Sokka. You need to come to the emergency room, now.”

Zuko barely has the mindset to turn the stove off before he’s stumbling out the door, keys in hand, knuckles white where he is still clutching his phone as Katara talks to him.

And for the first time in his life, Sokka breaks his promise.

…

The emergency room is deadly silent. Or maybe it is loud. Zuko can’t seem to process anything other than his racing thoughts, the roaring in his ears. As soon as he runs in, a nurse rushes up to meet him, making eye contact with him and then leading the way down the hallway to where Katara and a few other doctors are standing with their heads bowed. One of them has her arm around Katara, which doesn’t make sense because shouldn’t they all be helping Sokka, instead of standing around, and which room was Sokka’s, and-

Katara turned her head at the sound of his footsteps and met Zuko’s eyes with her own wide ones. He has a moment to notice the fresh tears cascading down her cheeks before she rushes to him and wraps her arms around his torso. 

“I’m so sorry,” she whispers, and Zuko shakes his head, barely registering that the other doctors are walking away, giving them privacy. 

“What are you talking about? Where’s Sokka?” he asks, and he feels numb but his voice comes out shaky and frightened. 

“Zuko,” she pulls back to look him in the eyes. “He didn’t make it. We did everything we could, and he crashed just a few minutes after the ambulance brought him in.”

“But,” Zuko starts, because that can’t be true, Sokka can’t be...gone, he’s going to walk out of one of the rooms any moment now, smiling that crooked smile of his, and he is going to be okay, and he needs Katara to know that, that Sokka wouldn’t just leave him like this. “No, he…” His thoughts are racing, but he can’t seem to convey any of them into words. “No, Katara, he...he promised me that he would be right back. He never breaks his promises. He promised me.”

“This is one promise he can’t keep,” she says quietly.

Zuko feels her shuddering breaths as she sobs into his chest, and his arms are tight around her like it’s the only thing keeping him standing upright, which is probably true, and he has the feeling that he is keeping her from collapsing too. He rubs circles onto her back as she mourns. As long as he has known Sokka, he has known Katara, the two of them a package deal. But now, it is just Katara, grieving over the loss of the brother she has always had by her side. 

They stand there for a long time, Zuko comforting the sister of the love of his life, Katara comforting the husband of her big brother, both numb and overwhelmed with emotion at the same time. 

…

Katara is at his side and holding his hand, her head on Zuko’s shoulder. Neither of them like coming here alone, so when Toph tells Zuko she has work or Aang offers to stay with the kids, they make the drive together.

Sometimes they stand there for a long time, not saying a word until they are back in the car. Other times they’ll sit on the grass in front of Sokka’s grave and talk about their favorite memories of him, laughing even as they wipe away the tears of sorrow. Today she offers him a bag of Twizzlers and he takes one out and chews it slowly as he stares at the words loving husband carved out of stone.

It makes him think of Sokka’s voicemail, the one he keeps calling just to hear his voice again. “You’ve reached Sokka, that’s with an -okka, if this is important please leave a message, and if this is my loving husband, just know that I in fact do love you more, Zuko.” 

The sky is getting darker, and Katara starts to walk toward the car, her fingers letting go of Zuko’s hand as he stays unmoving. She glances over her shoulder, and he gives her a nod before she turns back around and walks to the car alone.

He kneels in front of the tombstone, his head full of so many things he needs to say, but nothing comes out. He takes a shuddering breath in and places a palm on the grass, looking up at the sky where he can see the moon rising on the horizon. He smiles at it.

“I’ll never stop loving you, Sokka. Ever. I promise.”

(Zuko keeps his promise.)

[hotvampireadjacent]

im so glad someone else hates 100 gecs

someone has to speak the truth.. i have two ears so of course i hate them

[knowledgequeenabc]

tumblrbot told me to message you but i cant cause my laptop is screwed and im on mobile. anyway wanna be friends

oh man, tumblrbot strikes again

sure! heya what’s up how’re you doing what kinda things do you like

[maidenmabel]

when you get to your mid-twenties, you find out who your real friends are. 

even then, you still barely talk to them. 

#ugh #friendshipisweird

[zodiac-15]

Chess

So I’ve never played chess my whole life. My friend and I started playing an online version and so far I wasn’t doing that bad. Especially since my friend had way more experience with chess and they have no idea that I have never played it. Somehow we ended up in a draw but I guess it was a nice experience.

[ohocrow]

@friendshipisweird

[firethekitty]

you’re always so real #bringfreudbacksoicankillhimagain

thank you king 🫡 🫡 it’s really funny and sad to me how psychologists are required to study freud even though almost everything he said has literally no scientific basis beyond like. the very very basic idea of the subconscious. big fucking deal. you don’t need a phd to see that the human brain tends to stick with what it’s familiar with. why are we giving so much credit to some horny bastard who was high on cocaine all the time

#bringfreudbacksoicankillhimagain

[thisisnotacreativeusername]

tsinktober day 5! i know next to nothing about pokemon so i asked my friend @friendshipisweird and she said to draw bounsweet. i made him into a caramel apple

prompt: your favorite fall/halloween treat reimagined as a pokemon

[nattoppet-dj]

ur wife is back to say happy day! doesnt matter what the day is just make sure its a good one.

god you’re adorable

my wife is good

i hope you have a happy day too

[lorelei-nixie-blog]

Had my friends sleep over a while ago, and ended up sketching them in my room or palace :)

[innnnarchive]

@friendshipisweird

frog

[b-loader]

Fire and beer at the lake with @highest_of_highz and @hero_magic #friendshipisweird #lifeisnice

[innnnarchive]

@friendshipisweird

a full moon on the summer solstice 

[firethekitty]

im choosing violence i want to hear about 8

8. common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

i'll pick a few off the top of my head for some different fandoms!!

people saying that aki hayakawa is some kind of domineering womanizer makes me want to eat rocks

making volo pokemon out to be some kind of evil twisted cycle path

infantilizing the hell out of mp100 characters like mob, serizawa, and teru and writing them like they're literally stupid or toddlers

making vash's morals black and white. this is the entire plot of trimax nightow wrote trimax with so much love please just read trimax i'm begging you people PLEASE

this isn't common but one time i saw someone on a scan site for chainsaw man say denji didn't have a heart and it's stuck with me for months as one of the worst character interpretations i've ever seen in my life